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by tbyehl 1507 days ago
My understanding is that QSV transcoding stopped being trash with Skylake and newer, but I'm basing that off of this thread and use an i5-10400 for my own.

https://forums.serverbuilds.net/t/guide-hardware-transcoding...

My original "Pi for PiHole" replacement 5-6 years ago was a used AMD GX-415GA NUC-alike that I spent less than $40 on and half was for an SSD. I keep it around still because it cold boots incredibly fast and if there's anything you want to boot really fast, it's the thing running your DNS.